Sir Monoux Cope, 7th Baronet (c. 1696 – 1763) was a British politician who sat in the

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between 1722 and 1747. Cope was the eldest son of

Sir John Cope, 6th Baronet Sir John Cope, 6th Baronet (1673–1749), of Bramshill, Hampshire, was a British banker and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for 36 years from 1705 to 1741. He was a Director of the Bank of England from 1706 t ...

and his wife Alice Monoux, daughter of Sir Humphrey Monoux, 2nd Baronet of Wootton, Bedfordshire. Cope was elected

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for

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on his family's interest at the 1722 general election, succeeding a distant cousin Sir Jonathan Cope. He did not stand in

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. At the 1741 general election he was returned unopposed as MP for Newport (Isle of Wight) on the government interest. Cope succeeded his father in the

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on 8 December 1749. He died on 29 June 1763, aged 67. He married Penelope Mordaunt on 27 July 1726 Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812 and had two sons and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son John.

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